Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R: In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
- Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
Answer
(4) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
Solution
The flower is a modified shoot wherein the shoot apical meristem changes to floral meristem, so A is true.
In the floral meristem the internodes do not elongate and the axis gets condensed; the apex produces different kinds of floral appendages laterally at successive nodes instead of leaves. This is why the flower is regarded as a modified (condensed) shoot, so R is true and explains A.
Answer: (4)